Daily Archives: January 24, 2017

Thank you Senator Chuck Schumer, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and U.S. Senate Democrats for putting out a bold, expansive infrastructure plan to move our nation, its cities and its towns forward. We are at a decisive moment in American history. Either we invest in the roads, schools, water systems and other services Americans rely on, or we will fall behind the rest of the world. I will do all I can to work with mayors, Congress and with the Trump Administration to make this plan a reality.

I will do all I can to work with mayors, Congress and with the Trump Administration to make this plan a reality.

State of the Union Address (January 24, 1995)

Bill Clinton

…. All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That’s why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens. In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

The most important job of our government in this new era is to empower the American people to succeed in the global economy. America has always been a land of opportunity, a land where, if you work hard, you can get ahead. We’ve become a great middle-class country. Middle-class values sustain us. We must expand that middle class and shrink the underclass, even as we do everything we can to support the millions of Americans who are already successful in the new economy…..

State of the Union Address, Bill Clinton, President Clinton speech millercenter.org